This collecting overview presents work purchased during the last three years and provides an insight into the range and diversity of work by artists belonging to the canon of outsider art, as well as outsider artists living and working today. Acquisitions are made possible with the generous support of individuals, trusts and foundations. To name [...]
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Louis Marcussen has lived more than 56 years in the psychiatric institute of Aarhus. Under the pseudonyme Ovartaci, Danish for ‘supreme fool’, he created his extreme world of beauty. Exhibition in Museum Dr Guislain: February 5 – May 8, 2011. Afterwards the exhibition will be travelling to Dolhuys Haarlem, Prinzhorn Sammlung, Heidelberg.
Read moreCollection De Stadshof is a private foundation, receiving no grants from government, and is recognised as social benefit organization (anbi), within Dutch tax laws. If you care for Outsider Art and want future generations to share in this, you can support Collection De Stadshof Foundation by donating either funds or, for example, works of art [...]
Read moreAfter a long illness, Donald Pass passed away on the 3rd of December, 2010. Two of Donald’s amazing Resurrection drawings have been acquired for Collection De Stadshof in 2010. References: www.donaldpass.com
Read moreStichting Collectie De Stadshof has been invited to become the Dutch partner of euward. euward is the European art award for painting and graphic arts by artists with a mental handicap. It is the first, and so far the only, prize of international significance to be awarded in this sphere of art. The euward-award has [...]
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(Nederlands) Monografie over het werk van outsiderkunstenaar Willem van Genk, geschreven door Ans van Berkum.
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2010-2011 CASLa, Almere. Expositie ‘Willem van Genk bouwt zijn universum / building a world of his own’. Expo 19 november 2010 t/m 26 februari 2011. info: www.casla.nl
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(Nederlands) Eind 2010 heropende het Franse ‘Museum voor moderne kunst, hedendaagse kunst en Art Brut’ in Villeneuve-d’Ascq vlakbij Lille. Kortweg: LaM. In 1999 kreeg de Aracine collectie met meer dan 3.500 Art Brut werken ook een vaste plek in het museum. In de eerste wisselexpositie Habiter poétiquement le monde / Dichterlijk wonen heeft het werk van Willem van Genk een prominente plek gekregen.
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